Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:40:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LMp7q-0003c5-Dr for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:40:34 -0800 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.123]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LMp7n-0003bG-Q2 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:40:34 -0800 Received: from chausie ([71.75.215.96]) by cdptpa-omta06.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090113194025.RCA93.cdptpa-omta06.mail.rr.com@chausie> for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:40:25 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id B53A719C9 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:40:23 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: fa fe fi se te... Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:40:21 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <5715b9300901020747s28c0d177ib421215aac0afcae@mail.gmail.com> <96f789a60901130708l586ecc3anfb5b3ea3c9d832a5@mail.gmail.com> <5715b9300901130712l3cff7d0fnb01d4a646db381d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5715b9300901130712l3cff7d0fnb01d4a646db381d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901131440.22201.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 1183 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 486 On Tuesday 13 January 2009 10:12:57 Luke Bergen wrote: > what is this game? What on earth does that sentence translate to.... even > if the seveteve.... was a simple se I wouldn't really know how to translate > that kelci'e A shell game is a game in which one player has a small object such as a pea, and several shells such as half walnut shells, puts the pea under one shell, shuffles them around as "sevetevexeseteve" does, and asks the other player where the pea is. Pierre